Thomas “TC” Gordon

Bleeding blue #Dodgers | BYU fan 🤙🏻 | New hockey fan #TusksUp 🦣 | CA, PAN, ID, UT,TX | ⚾️🏈🏀🏒 |

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

This is beautiful 🥹

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.

"You want that Animal Style?"

I paused.

I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.

"...Animal Style."

"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"

I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.

"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."

Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"

I stopped. Even the potatoes?

"The potatoes also become animals?"

"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."

"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."

"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"

I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"

"It's, like, how many patties you want."

"How many is the most honorable?"

"...Four is a lot."

"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."

She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.

It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.

I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.

For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.

They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.

So tell me, America.

The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?

And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

@BYUSportsNation Jazz win big on draft night with Dybantsa, Saunders selections

[l feII in Dior @LIRIO_AG]

“Ay no, tarjeta gris otra vez”.

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

It’s called soccer!

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

@SportyMcSports First hockey, our fourth popular sport. Now soccer, probably number five. This is what the founding fathers envisioned

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

And I was fortunate to witness it in person. Best game I ever attended

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

Holy cow, I almost can’t believe this. Good for them

[On3 @On3]

BREAKING: QB Brendan Sorsby and Texas Tech are mutually parting ways, @PeteNakos reports.

Sorsby will not play College Football in 2026.

https://t.co/IG2DYwzv4c

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

One day Yoshi. Your no-no is coming

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Dang it Mookie!!!!!!!!!!

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

@CollegeFBonX Brendan Sorsby be like: +140?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

Clearly, the USA has the greatest soccer team in the world. Or Paraguay’s the worst. Either way, let’s go!

[Josh Chavis @JoshChavis65]

All of America watching Euros rave about Waffle House, Chilis apps, buying Combos at a rural gas station, floating the Chattahoochee, and ranch dressing on the internet:

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

There really aren’t any rules. You just go to court. If it fails, go to court again until a judge says you’re all set.

Want a 7th year?

Sure

Broke rules?

Ahhhh, it’s fine.

There AREN’T any rules.

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

@UteFanIvan

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

@SportyMcSports You wanna be even more niche, go with the Golden Toe Black Sox. Or just Golden Toes

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

I know this company’s employees are very open about their fandom for various teams, but it’s ridiculous to post stuff like this minimizing a team or player without checking a rule book or waiting for an explanation, which was given on the broadcast a few minutes later

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

Shohei Ohtani was gifted a little-league-home run after review determined this was not a ground rule double

[vic @CountOnVic]

Me when they finally bring food out but it’s for the other table

[Cole Bagley @BagleyKSLsports]

Buckle up.

There is life in this building now and Utah has some confidence.

[Thomas “TC” Gordon @Air_Gordon12]

This Mammoth defense is brutal. Just so many lapses leading to easy scores for Vegas